Original title: Pays de cocagne
Directed by Pierre Étaix, Land of Milk and Honey is a sharp, satirical departure from his scripted comedies. It is an “investigative documentary” that captures the collective psyche of France in the immediate wake of the May 1968 civil unrest. Initially misunderstood and poorly received, it is now considered a brilliant, “reflexive” time capsule of 20th-century sociology.